Nollywood actress Patience Ozokwor talks leaving a man she loved for one her mother chose

This meant she had to abandon her romance with another man who was studying at a university when her mother forced the decision on her.

Mama G made this known in an interview with the Punch. She disclosed that she could not resist her mother because, during her days as a youth, parents usually decide who their children will marry.

Despite being unable to make a choice about the man she married, Patience Ozokwor has stayed in her union for many years.

“No, I wasn’t betrothed to him, but my mother was a kind of woman that always liked to punish any child that misbehaved publicly.

“You know all those Christian mothers that would be in the disciplinary section to punish children. So, she didn’t want her child to come out of secondary school and not get married because she was afraid you could bring her to where she had been punishing people.

“So she insisted I must get married. I said okay but I had a suitor. But she said no. I didn’t know what to do because I had put all my eggs in one basket; he was in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

“I was waiting to go to school so that I would marry him but my mother wouldn’t wait. So I had to obey her. There was a big fight but in our days, you would not be the one to say I will marry this person; it was your parents that would have the final say in your marriage, so I had to give up.”